wrong place for this I know, but need speedy replies

[Dieu]

Sorry everyone, I know this isn't in the right place, but I know how great you are at speedy replies and I'm not sure what to do at this moment. My daughter has just told me that there is something moving in the garden. I had a peek and it is a tiny baby bird, bald and all curled up. It looks like it could have come out the egg, but I can't see any shell lying around. It looks too young to be alive but it is, as it's twitching. I cannot bear to see it in pain. The parent, a small robin, keeps flying down but there is nothing it can do. Should I kill it to put it out of its misery? Very sad.

No, don't kill it. Leave it where it is

call the rspb?

www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpingbirds/health/babybirds.aspx

for advice I mean. They can't take the bird.

Have you looked to see if there is a nest nearby?

leave it. It's sad but it's nature. It will either recover or die.

don't kill it. Maybe see if you can find the nest, can't be far away? If you find the nest, put baby bird back in. Contrary to popular myth, mum and dad bird won't smell or care about human contact.

If you touch it the parents will reject it. If you try and look after it there is a high probability it will die anyway.
As sad as it is its best to leave it there

I would just leave it tbh, let nature take it's course :( poor mama robin!

Thanks to both of you. My instinct was to leave it and let nature take its course, but I wasn't sure. I think it's too now late to call the RSPB, and it's so so little. Don't think it's even 100% fully formed, and it's in the foetal position. Poor wee thing.

Hedgehog, that rspb link says they can't smell well so won't reject it. If you can find the nest put it back, but if not, leave it.

Sorry, if that's not true about human smell then by all means put it back in nest if its nearby.

We have tried to help baby birds before and they always died

Official advice is always to leave well alone.

Gosh, slow typist. Thanks too for all the later replies.

If you can't find the nest you could try to find a local wildlife rescue - they will take it and hand-rear it if it is healthy.

Strong and healthy birds you can put back if you know where they're from and they're a nestling as opposed to a fledgling bird. But chances are a bird this weak and small has been rejected.

Wish that we had a pound for every baby bird the DC's insisted we rescued over the years.All died,tens if not hundreds,all burried with due ceremony in the back garden< of rest > along with cats,rabbits,1 dog,2 foxes,a complete (dead) menagerie of small mammals including several squashed hedgehogs.Sound like a Springwatch idyll,however we live in the centre of a large,industrial city.The burrial ground ( garden ) has lain fallow for a few years as the kids started there own as they bought their own houses.Not long untill DGC's will carry on the Pet Cemetary tradition though.:)